Senior Discovery & Digital Innovation Engineer (m/w/d)

Remotely; Bayern; Hybrid; EUR 90.000 - 120.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

International environment

Personal development opportunities

Employee benefits

Zusammenfassung

Ambu is seeking a forward-looking Discovery professional to identify growth opportunities at the intersection of healthcare, technology, and digital capabilities. You will collaborate with engineers, clinicians, commercial teams to translate insights into strategic recommendations, prototypes, and business cases that shape Ambu's next generation of products.

The role is based in Augsburg with a hybrid model and offers exposure to international networks and impactful healthcare innovations.

Qualifikationen

• Significant experience within medical devices, healthcare technology, software, digital health, or other innovation-driven industries.
• Experience in product development, innovation, or business creation environments.
• Ability to identify, evaluate, and mature opportunities and develop strategic recommendations.

Aufgaben

• Identify and evaluate adjacent business opportunities and emerging digital technologies.
• Translate insights into actionable opportunity assessments and business cases.
• Build relationships with clinicians, researchers, hospitals, startups and innovation ecosystems.
• Develop proof-of-concept solutions and feasibility assessments to support decisions.
• Collaborate across engineering, clinical, commercial, and innovation functions to assess value and feasibility.

Kenntnisse

Healthcare technology

Product development

Innovation management

Stakeholder collaboration

Communication

Ausbildung

Master's degree or higher

Tools

AI/ML awareness

Data analytics

Jobbeschreibung

If you're excited by emerging technologies, enjoy exploring new ideas, and want to help shape the future of healthcare, this could be the opportunity for you.

You will join Ambu's Discovery organization and play a key role in identifying and maturing future growth opportunities beyond our current product portfolio. Working at the intersection of healthcare, technology innovation, business creation, and digital capabilities, you will help uncover and evaluate ideas that could become Ambu's next generation of products, services, and business platforms.

Collaborating with colleagues across engineering, clinical, commercial, and innovation functions, you will engage with clinicians, researchers, hospitals, startups, and innovation ecosystems to understand unmet needs, explore technology trends, and translate insights into opportunity assessments, business cases, prototypes, and strategic recommendations.

This is a unique opportunity to combine technical curiosity, commercial thinking, and stakeholder engagement in a role that offers significant visibility and the chance to influence future strategic decisions. If you thrive in an environment where innovation, creativity, and collaboration are valued, we'd love to hear from you.

We believe the best ideas come from a mix of in-person collaboration and focused individual work. That's why this role is based in Augsburg and follows a hybrid working model, with three days per week in the office and two days working from home.

Your tasks

Key responsibilities

• Identify and evaluate adjacent business opportunities, changing clinical practices, unmet needs, reimbursement developments, future healthcare trends, and emerging digital technologies.
• Translate clinical, market, and technology insights into actionable opportunity assessments, strategic recommendations, value propositions, and early-stage business cases.
• Build relationships with clinicians, key opinion leaders, researchers, hospitals, startups, and innovation ecosystems to gain early access to emerging needs, technologies, and opportunities.
• Evaluate and mature emerging technologies and digital capabilities, including AI, machine learning, computer vision, healthcare data analytics, automation, robotics, imaging, and software-enabled medical devices, through fast prototypes and demos to make the idea tangible
• Develop proof-of-concept solutions, innovation demonstrators, and feasibility assessments to support strategic decision-making.
• Collaborate across engineering, clinical, commercial, and innovation functions to assess customer value, market potential, competitive landscape, technical feasibility, and strategic fit.
• Drive promising opportunities through Discovery processes and decision gates, from early insight to validated recommendations and development readiness

Your profile

Suggested candidate profile

• Have significant experience within medical devices, healthcare technology, software, digital health, or other innovation-driven industries, combined with practical experience working in product development, innovation, or business creation environments.
• Have demonstrated the ability to identify, evaluate, and mature new opportunities and to develop strategic recommendations, value propositions, business cases, or innovation initiatives.
• Combine strong technical understanding with commercial curiosity and an interest in how emerging technologies can create future business value.
• Are comfortable navigating complex organizations and collaborating with stakeholders across technical, clinical, commercial, and leadership functions.
• Communicate and influence effectively across diverse audiences and can explain complex concepts in a clear and compelling way.
• Bring a strong understanding of healthcare, innovation processes, and commercial considerations, supported by a master's degree or higher in engineering, medical technology, life sciences, healthcare technology, business, or a similar field.
• Ideally bring experience in one or more of the following areas: digital health, AI or machine learning, computer vision, healthcare data analytics, software-enabled medical devices, in innovation management, product management, workflow automation, robotics, or emerging imaging technologies.

What we offer

Ambu - a visionary and international workplace where your efforts matter

Ambu is a company that expands rapidly and has ambitious growth targets. We meet these targets through interdisciplinary teamwork between motivated and highly skilled employees. Your contributions and efforts are crucial to our success, and by joining us you will get the opportunity to work in an international environment with an informal working culture.

We offer great opportunities for personal development. Furthermore, we offer a wide range of professional, social and financial employee benefits in addition to exciting job challenges and continuous professional and personal development.

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About Ambu

Ambu has been bringing the solutions of the future to life since 1937. Today, millions of patients and healthcare professionals worldwide depend on the efficiency, safety and performance of our single-use endoscopy, anaesthesia, and patient monitoring solutions. We continuously look to the future with a commitment to deliver innovative quality products that have a positive impact on patient care and the work of healthcare professionals. Headquartered near Copenhagen in Denmark, Ambu employs approximately 4,500 people in Europe, North America and the Asia Pacific.